Acknowledgments. -- Many friends have helped me tell this story. Norma Lee Stuart, Durward L. Allen, Patricia and Peter Van Pelt, Norm Bishop, Thomas A. Waite, Robert and Viola Brown, Robert M. Linn, David Harmon, Paul L. Hayden, Stefan Bechtel, Louise Murie-MacLeod, Tress Lindsay, Dorothy Zeller, Sally Peterson, Susan Burack, Debi Davidson, Christine Patten, Debbie Mues, Martha Adkins, Susan Olin, Brian McLaren, William O. Fink, Douglas Barnard, Carl Strang, and Ronald Eckoff gave me helpful suggestions and encouragement.
The following young men and women assisted Rolf with the summer field work and shared our table in the past 27 years: John Vanada, Ron Bell, Jim Dietz, Phil Simpson, Tim Lawrence, Mike Wrighthouse, Joseph Scheidler, Jim Woolington, John Brooks, Mark Cramer, Doug Smith, Mike Phillips, Noel Hanson, Rick Page, Tim Laske, Pat Charmley, Edith Greene, John Boulanger, Jeff Selinger, Ken and Lynn Risenhoover, Peter Zavell, Tim Ackerman, Joanne Thurber, Dan Fehringer, Drew Metzger, Brian McLaren, Mary Hindelang, Tony Schwaller, Chris Fink, John and Leah Vucetich, Marco Heurich, Joe Zanon, Willow Foster, Jenny Mahan, Cindy Carter, Menna Jones, Jeff Plakke, Seth Maefsky, Boerge Wahl, Marcel Potvin, Justin Gude, Anne Chouinard, Ellen Jedrey, Philip DeWitt, Greg Burkhart, Ken Mills, Nathan Hambel, Jason Duetsch, Elizabeth Clement, Emily Grosvenor, Sam Gardner, and Matt Abbotts.
The most important characters in my story are Rolf, who keeps trying to teach me to be attentive to detail, and our sons Jeremy and Trevor, who continue to renew my faith in the big picture.
